BOOM! Studios was founded by Ross Richie in 2005 with the singular focus of creating world-class comic book and graphic novel storytelling for all audiences. Through the development of four distinct imprints—BOOM! Studios, BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, and Archaia—BOOM! has produced award-winning original work, including Lumberjanes, The Woods, Giant Days, Klaus, and Mouse Guard, while also breaking new ground with established licenses such as WWE, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Cartoon Network, and Jim Henson Company properties. BOOM! will also bring their original series to life through unique first-look relationships with 20th Century Fox for film and with Fox Television for the small screen. Please visit www.boom-studios.com for more information.

MEET THE TEAM

ROSS RICHIE

Founder, Chief Executive OfficerRoss founded BOOM! Studios in the spare bedroom of his apartment in June of 2005 — the company went on to win “Best New Publisher” four months later. Since then, BOOM! has added “Best Publisher” from Diamond Comics Distributors to its list of accolades in 2009 and 2010, along with an Eisner Award and several Harveys. Ross is originally from San Antonio, TX.

MATT GAGNON

Editor-in-chiefAs Editor-in-Chief of BOOM! Studios, Matt Gagnon is head of creative at the publisher, overseeing the Editorial and Production/Design departments. Matt joined BOOM! Studios in 2008 and–aside from the company’s founder–is the longest serving employee of the company. Since his promotion from Managing Editor to Editor-in-Chief in 2010, the publishing house has grown exponentially and earned numerous Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards, GLAAD awards, and Diamond Best Publisher awards. BOOM!’s titles have also earned multiple New York Times Best Seller designations.

Throughout Matt’s tenure overseeing content creation at BOOM! the publisher has amassed the largest independently-controlled comic book and graphic novel library in the industry; in 2017 20th Century Fox invested in BOOM! as a strategic partnership to fuel the company’s generation of more original content.

Previous to BOOM!, Matt was the GM/Buyer of the legendary Meltdown Comics on Sunset Blvd when it was one of the nation’s preeminent comic book shops. In this role Matt was a local tastemaker during the comics-to-Film/TV boom of the early aughts, coordinated events for the likes of Disney and MTV, and raised money for the CBLDF by throwing “Y the Last Party,” the red carpet finale party for Y: The Last Man.

As a writer, Matt created the comic book series FREELANCERS and created the comic book series DAY MEN, which is currently in development for TV.

FILIP SABLIK

President of Publishing and MarketingAs BOOM! Studios President of Publishing and Marketing, Filip Sablik oversees both logistical publishing concerns including interacting with key distribution partners, digital initiatives, licensing partners, printers; and also, on a daily basis dons his marketing cap to spearhead BOOM!’s marketing, press, and promotion initiatives. Sablik is a six year veteran of Diamond Comic Distributors, where he rose to Assistant Manager of the Purchasing Department. He then transitions to publishing by moving to Top Cow Productions in 2006 as Vice-President of Marketing & Sales, before being promoted to Publisher in 2008. As Top Cow’s Publisher, Filip Sablik managed all of Top Cow’s publishing business including editorial, marketing, production, license coordination and digital distribution. Sablik has also worked as a creator, writer and artist in the comic industry. He is the creator and writer of Pilot Season: Asset and Pilot Season: Misdirection, as well as co-creator and co-writer of Last Mortal. A graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree of Art in Illustration and graduated cum laude.

STEPHEN CHRISTY

President of Development
Stephen Christy came to BOOM! through the company’s acquisition of Archaia Entertainment, where Stephen served as Editor-in-Chief and oversaw the company’s film/tv operations. At Archaia he became the only editor in the industry to win back-to-back Eisner Awards for Best Original Graphic Album two years in a row, for Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand and Return of the Dapper Men. When BOOM! acquired Archaia, Stephen was put in charge of the company’s film and TV division, and was instrumental in brokering the company’s first look film deal with 20th Century Fox and first look TV deal with 20th Television. He currently oversees BOOM!’s entire multimedia development slate and is based out of BOOM!’s satellite office on the Fox lot. He is a graduate of Emerson College.

ADAM YOELIN

Senior Vice President, Film
Adam Yoelin is an experienced executive in the film industry who began his career at one of the leading talent agencies and quickly forged a path into producing. Over the course of his career as a development and production executive, he’s collaborated with top talent and shepherded a vast number of projects for various production companies, studios and financiers. Upon joining BOOM! in 2014, Yoelin has headed up the film division under the company’s first-look deal at 20th Century Fox, where he’s helped assemble an extensive slate of projects and produced the upcoming adaptation of the BOOM! graphic novel, The Empty Man.

LANCE KREITER

Vice President of Licensing and MerchandisingDrummer, father and avid pop-culture devotee, Lance has extensive experience in the industry, including a decade with Dark Horse Comics as the Director of Global Licensing before joining BOOM! Studios in 2010. Lance has worked intimately with brands around the globe that include The Muppets, Disney (Classics), PIXAR, Lucas Film’s Star Wars/Indy Jones, Hellboy, Sin City, Frank Miller’s 300, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Aliens/Predator and most recently Charles Schulz’s PEANUTS and Jim Davis’s Garfield. When he’s not focusing on world domination, you’ll find him perpetuating his own version of “Portlandia” up in Oregon.

ARUNE SINGH

Vice President, Marketing
In his position as Vice President of Marketing, Arune Singh oversees all day-to-day aspects of marketing, communications, and social media, in addition to brand development and new corporate initiatives across all divisions of bOOM! Studios.

Singh began his career in the entertainment industry in 2001 as a columnist for IGN and soon joined ComicBookResources.com as a staff writer. In 2007, Singh joined Marvel Entertainment’s publishing team where he led the communications team through major launches including the introduction of Miles Morales, the landmark super hero marriage in Astonishing X-Men and record-breaking events like Avengers vs X-Men. In 2013, he was promoted to Executive Director, TV Communications and led the publicity launch of Marvel Television with series including “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Marvel’s Daredevil” and more. In 2015, he moved to Syfy in the role of Vice President, Publicity before joining BOOM! Studios in late 2016.